Bored of Boards.ie

This and the number of posters who liked it makes me believe that the Mods are probably doing a decent job (or are in a no win situation) as my perception is the complete opposite.

In Irish terms I'd be classed as center to center right (FG or PDs back in the day type voter) and my view is that many threads go far, far beyond 'right-leaning', including skirting and crossing the line into pure racism and the Mods just let the comments go - choosing to take the easier option to shut down those who call the comments out for what they are rather than dealing with the content in the original posts that clearly break the charter of the forum.

Brilliant way to really highlight that persons point. They say the relentless negativity is nauseating, you respond with crushing negativity.

I agree with that poster that attitudes like yours are what's choking the fun out of Boards. I get that you have an agenda, maybe even feel you've a job to do here, but man does drain the joy out of the place.

I saw that thread and thought the person got reasonable advice including what sort of timber they might get. Also advised that a lot of maintenance etc and other possible solutions.

In general, on specific forums here that have reasonable traffic, you can ask a question like that and get good answers, some more suitable and some less so.

The bigger threads based on current affairs etc are just full of peoples various opinions.

Some threads are used to promote political agendas, you'll see a small handful engaged in them and they keep recycling them by posting a comment a couple of times a day. These posters are largely bots - whether FGbots, FFbots but mostly Shinnerbots. No idea whether it's voluntary or paid, maybe on some employment scheme. Personally I'd like to see an algorithm that kills these threads after a period, must be some way to identify. Long running one currently supposedly on 'integrating unionists' for example.